Summary: The name Hermione is taken from a character in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. As a gift to AnnieTalbot, details from that story have been juxtaposed with a post-RW/HG-->SS/HG premise to play with OUR Hermione and her namesake. Warning: literary obscurity.

Summary: Neville comes to an understanding about Severus Snape: Snape has an understanding to come to, as well. This is a companion piece to The Language of Flowers. Written for celandineb, who won a story written to spec in the Live Long & Marry auction, a cross-fandom effort in support of marriage equality.

Summary: Lucius takes personal interest in every potential Death Eater who seeks his approval and support. (NB: all italicized quotes, and the quote-fragment in the title, are the words of Friedrich Nietzsche.)

Summary: Hermione went red with rage as every memory of being called an ‘insufferable know-it-all' replayed itself. “How. Dare. You. You horrible, horrible...” She stood up, shaking. “... HORRIBLE man!”

Summary: In Celtic mythology the Oak King and the Holly King are twins. Every year at the Winter and Summer Solstices (the points of the year at shortest and longest daylight, after which the length of day waxes or wanes, as the case may be), these two fight for dominance. Just like our boys…

Summary: From legend we know mermaids enchant men – sometimes causing shipwreck, other times taking them down to the depths, where they forget that humans cannot breathe underwater. Most humans, that is...

Summary: After surviving Voldemort's psychosis, Dumbledore's machinations, and Nagini's bite, Severus Snape tries to begin anew half a world away from home. "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." - Marcus Aurelius